Mike Huckabee's air travel jokes crash and burn on Twitter

The conservative commentator and former Republican presidential candidate had just landed at Nashville International Airport on a red eye flight out of Los Angeles when it was temporarily quarantined because of a possible sick passenger on board. After sitting on the ground for 40 minutes, Huckabee told his 1.08 million Twitter followers that his American Airlines plane had been quarantined. “It’s the Russians! I just know it!” About a half-hour later, he tweeted a picture of emergency vehicles on the tarmac and announced that medical personnel were the gate, adding “Hope it’s not because I got that straw in CA!” But Huckabee’s humor did not go over well with most of the more than 1,600 people who tweeted back at him on Thursday morning.